He completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio San Carlos, a bilingual private school which he attended from 1981 to 1992 in Bogotá, Colombia.
Later on, while working as an assistant photographer (while still being a university student), Gómez established direct contact with commercial photography, agencies, fashion shoots and larger productions.
He provided work for almost every major publication in Bogotá for more than 5 years and for advertising agencies such as Lowe & Partners/SSP3, (now MullenLowe Group), Bates and Ogilvy & Mather.
He was also offered a place as a photography lecturer in the Fine Arts School of the Universidad de Los Andes by Carolina Franco (then dean of the Fine Arts School), shortly after having already decided to travel to the United States, the U.K. and continental Europe to focus on his personal work and expand his international experience.
Some of the editorial portrait subjects from Gómez's career have ranged from Colombian ex-president Álvaro Uribe Vélez and politician and diplomat Noemí Sanín, to race car driver Juan Pablo Montoya and alternative rock band Aterciopelados.